I've played LFS competitively for all of 1year actually and when everyone else around you, even teh guys only a few tenths quicker have been playing it for something like 7+years I'd say to be even a second off top pace in a short space of a time was actually very commendable.
In regards to iRacing I don't give a shit. I'd rather spend hours of my time pulling my retina from my eye with a spoon.
SR is more luck based than anything else until you get out of anything below div2 and iRating means absolutely jack.
If I put time to iRacing, I could very well challenge some of iRacings 'best' drivers. I did TFR's V8S and CTS-V championship and was less than a second slower than my team-mate Rens Broekman, who lets not beat around the bush, is probably the best V8SC driver in iRacing and I didn't even practice for it that much.
You look at a guys results where he has managed to finish, not a mans iRating, to judge his ability.
The higher the iRating just means they're super quick in general or (which is mostly the case) they don't play any other GAME, never mind any other sim, and race one series in which they are comfortable, get into a decent split of guys that don't wreck and finish above their starting number.
iRacing is the silliest thing to put time into, because in 6months they change the tyre model in which the whole physic of the car changes, not just tyre behaviour. Also your qualy lap entails crawling out of the pits around the track at a about 2mph so you don't get +5c into your tyres or you get no grip.
Hamilton hasn't been 'wacked' by Rosberg at all. They've been basically the same. The difference is luck has come through for Nico, but not for Lewis. Had Lewis' tyre not gone at Silverstone, they'd be a win a piece and Hamilton would still have more poles.
Well the difference is Massa's status in Ferrari is far from a 'conspiracy' because they are open about it. Which I applaud.
You just contradicted yourself. Media coverage these days is what makes money. The prize money from the FIA/FOM for a constructors championship will be 10times less than the money made from a WDC victory.
iracing is just a simple case of people playing it because they find themselves doing well with no effort, but they don't actually realise that's because the 99% of other players are 40+year old men.
Look at Vettels retirements compared to Webbers in the same team. Then subtract the retirements of Vettels that were his own fault and you're left with a million retirements that were all not Webbers own doing.
When I read your posts all I can picture is you gurning your face off on god only knows what, grinding your gripped hand up and down your shaft. You seem to enjoy the small things, a little TOO much....
Coulthard changed his tune, I remember at the '05 Indianapolis GP he said he'd race even with the Michelin issue anyway and said danger is PART of F1 but these days when commentating he sounds like my dad.